it has 12 faces
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Yet another totally incorrect answer by "The Community". The prefix "Octa-" stands for eight!
An octahedron has eight faces. If it has 62 faces then it is not an octahedron!
A regular octahedron has 6 apexes as it can be rotated evenly as each face is congruent.
An octahedron is a closed 3-d shape with 8 polygonal faces. There are 257 topologically different convex octahedra. An octahedron can have 6 to 12 vertices, and 12 to 18 edges.
equilateral triangle
Octahedron
Each face is an equilateral triangle.
a octagon coz oct means 8 and a octahedron has 8 sides
A regular octahedron is one of the platonic solids. Each of its faces is an equilateral triangle.
An octahedron is a closed 3-d shape with 8 polygonal faces. There are 257 topologically different convex octahedra. An octahedron can have triangles for all eight faces or, as is the case with a hexagonal prism, not a single triangular face.
An octahedron has 8 sides.
a octahedron has 8 faces
An octahedron has 18 corners.